Questionnaire:
Textbook Clues to Meaning

Directions: Use this
questionnaire to evaluate your ability to recognize and make
use of textbook clues to meaning.
Make one copy of the questionnaire for each of your textbooks.
Then select one chapter from each textbook and fill out
the questionnaire by writing in the blanks or by circling
the letter of the correct answer.
Questions 1, 2, and 3 can be answered right after you complete
your chapter survey; the remaining questions can only be answered
after you have finished reading most or all of the chapter.

5. How did you use this device or these devices to guide your reading?

6. Do the headings provide clues to the chapter sections?___________

7. Did you consistently use the headings to focus your reading?__________

8. How would you rate the writing in the chapter?

a. Easy to understand
b. Hard to understand
c. Somewhere in-between

If your answer was b, how did you respond to the complexity of the writing? For example, did you mark passages for re-reading, read more slowly than normal or underline while you read?

9. How would you rate your reading performance?

a. I worked as hard as I could and tried to adapt my reading to the material.
b. I started out really focused, but I got tired and gave up after the first few pages.
c. I just went through the motions; I didnít really work to understand the authorís meaning.
Other:__________________________________________